[NYTr] Zapatistas host Women's Encuentro -amid ongoing violence

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World War 4 Report via Milt Shapiro - Jan 5, 2008
Source: http://www.ww4report.com


Chiapas: Zapatistas host Women's Encuentro -amid ongoing violence

To celebrate the 14th anniversary of their New Years Day uprising, 
Mexico's Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) hosted a Women's 
Encuentro ("encounter" or "meeting") at the jungle settlement of La 
Garrucha, Chiapas state. Officially dubbed the "Encuentro of the 
Indigenous Zapatista Women with the Women of the World," the meeting 
brought together women from throughout Mexico and several other 
countries around the globe. In a case of self-conscious role 
reversal, men at the gathering were confined to cooking and cleaning, 
while women did all the talking. Accounts and images are online at 
Chiapas IMC.

Meanwhile, Hermann Bellinghausen reports for La Jornada Jan. 2 on 
further attacks against Zapatista support bases by followers of the 
ironically-named Organization for the Defense of Indigenous and 
Campesino Rights (OPDDIC), which the EZLN charges is a paramilitary 
group. On Dec. 29, Zapatista supporter Pablo Silvano Jiménez was shot 
and wounded by an OPDDIC gunman apparently backed up by Chaipas state 
police officers in the community of Betel Yochiv, near the settlement 
of Agua Clara. On Dec. 27, Zapatista supporter Julio Hernández Gómez 
was attacked with machetes by OPDDIC militants at Cascadas de Agua 
Azul.